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ured terms. Now when a man attacks himself he is sure 

 to get the worst of it ; so John, who at heart was doubt- 

 less as much disappointed as I, came to the rescue, and 

 exercised his ready wit in the invention of excuses. But 

 I silenced him with, "John, you know you are just as 

 much disgusted with me as I am with myself. You 

 know that that fish was lost by my own gross stupidity; 

 there is really no excuse for it, not even that I knew no 

 better. There, let us drop the subject and go back to 

 camp. I am through fishing, at any rate for to-day." 



Emergencies of this character arise continually in the 

 experiences of every angler, especially if he fishes much 

 in strange waters where he seeks to locate the trout by 

 casting from a moving boat. The following is a remedy: 



Fig. 85. 



The rod should be so held that the line leads from the 

 reel over all the fingers of the hand employed, except the 



